by CarderCharmaine Yoest of Americans United for Life presented House Republican Minority Leader John Boehner the 2010 Henry Hyde Defender of Life Award yesterday.Robert Stacy McCain of the blog The Other McCain posted video footage of Boehner’s brief acceptance speech. (McCain is 1 of those bloggers who prefers being in the middle of an event and blogs as they unfold. Which provides plenty of amusing moments, as you’ll see if scrolling through this post’s photos.)
Boehner shared recollections of his early days in DC and the friendship he forged with Hyde, whom Boehner considers one of his heroes.
Boehner choked up a few times, first when talking about Hyde and then when talking about his 11 siblings. Yes, 11. Video on page 2…

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…and…I was blessed to have grown up with Henry Hyde as my Representative in Congress. I also had the great honor of meeting him on several occasions when I was active in the Pro-Life movement as a teenager. He was always so gracious and kind. He was an incredibly powerful man but was always very approachable and down-to-earth. And, I still love John Boehner.

Didn’t Henry Hyde have an affair, while married, which he claimed was a “youthful indiscretion?” But it’s all under the blood so it’s all good. And he was a grand knight of Columbus’ jock strap or whateve so it’s all good. Course Bill Clinton will never be forgiven because he doesn’t walk with Jaysus…
And betcha if Henry’s cumada got preggers, she would have had a nice “D&C” – LOL!

As GOP Leader of the House, John Boehner has raised the abortion issue and spoken out on it in his official capacity more than any previous Leader. During the White House “summit” on ObamaCare, it was John Boehner himself who raised objection to the abortion subsidy intrinsic to ObamaCare – straight to the President’s face, rather than leaving it to some rank-and-file Member to bring it up. He leads, he cares, he helps. He’s not perfect; neither was the late, great Henry Hyde. But he’s an outstanding leader, and he knows what counts and isn’t reticent about saying so. Congratulations to AUL on recognizing John Boehner’s growing leadership on Life. Especially to those of us who recognized and appreciated Henry Hyde as a national treasure, it’s moving to see that the next Speaker of the House does as well.

Artemis you are trolling, only here to cause trouble. Mods please delete the filthy mean “hate speech” about the late great Henry Hyde, a true pro-life champion. Please take the filthy post down. PP and NARAL would not allow us to troll their pro-death websites.

Part 1 of AUL’s blog on Boehner — he filed an amicus curiae WITH AUL. Part 2 of AUL’s blog on Boehner — he filed an amicus curiae with AUL.
*yawn
In part 1 of the blog Boehner defends the use the RU-486 regimen approved by the FDA.
In part 2 of the AUL blog Boehner is saying abortion is horrifically dangerous to teens.
Oh yeah. That’s so totally pro-life.
*eyeroll

To answer your question, Fed, nobody. I would like it if pro-life organizations stop giving awards to politicians. Doing so turns abortion into a mere political issue when in fact abortion is a violation of human rights.
Even Michelle Bachmann has done more than Boehner. She’s actually prayed outside of abortion clinics, done sidewalk counseling, and is foster-mother of 20-some-odd children. THAT is defending life. All Boehner has done for pro-life is TALK.

The “reversals” also show that the ingestion of medication abortion drugs is never a sure thing when it comes to terminating a pregnancy. While anti-abortion activists tout the alleged “high complication rates” of the process, what they conveniently leave out is that the most common complication is that the patient remains pregnant, and that the protocol needs to be followed up with D&C or vacuum aspiration abortion in order to end the pregnancy….

Why is the “reversal” apparently so successful then? Primarily it is because those who are trying to continue the pregnancy are already in the midst of a failed medication abortion to start with….

“There’s no evidence of any demonstrable effect of the ‘treatment’ these anti-abortion centers are marketing,” Dr. Cheryl Chastine, a provider at South Wind Women’s Center in Wichita, Kansas, said. “The medical literature is quite clear that mifepristone on its own is only about 50 percent effective at ending a pregnancy. That means that even if these doctors were to offer a large dose of purple Skittles, they’d appear to have ‘worked’ to ‘save’ the pregnancy about half the time. Those numbers are consistent with what these people are reporting.”

“[The abortion pill] binds much more tightly to the progesterone receptor, to block it than progesterone itself does…. So there really is not much evidence to indicate, I’m really not aware of anything, that by increasing the amount of progesterone you’re gonna somehow block the effect of this drug….

I think this is really outside of standard of care to just begin doing this kind of treatment, without collecting more rigorous studies about its effectiveness.”

Note: The function of mifepristone is to block progesterone receptors (which is why, in an abortion pill reversal, an extra injection of progesterone is given to counteract these effects). Mifepristone “directly causes endometrial decidual degeneration, cervical softening and dilatation, release of endogenous prostaglandins, and an increase in the sensitivity of the myometrium to the contractile effects of prostaglandins. Mifepristone-induced decidual breakdown indirectly leads to trophoblast detachment, resulting in decreased syncytiotrophoblast production of hCG, which in turn causes decreased production of progesterone by the corpus luteum (pregnancy is dependent on progesterone production by the corpus luteum through the first 9 weeks of gestation—until placental progesterone production has increased enough to take the place of corpus luteum progesterone production).”